End of year gift for teachers

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One mum from my DC's reception class is organising a voluntary donation towards gifts for the teacher and TA. We love both of them and they have been fantastic. There are 30 children in the class. How much is a reasonable amount to give? Is £20 each too much? Too little?
Thanks.

£20 each is a ridiculous amount, that's £600!!
Previous class donations at my school have been a maximum of £5 each, which would be the average cost of a mug / box of chocolates.

Oops sorry to be unclear, I'm not suggesting others pay this amount. We are happy to give £20 to teacher and £20 to TA. Other people can pay what they like. It all goes in to a pot. I might have spent this much if I bought them gifts myself (e.g a bouquet +wine?) I want to make sure they get something nice. Or shall I put in £5 and then get something personal from us?

£ 20? The fuck?

A quid each and box of Thorntons I say.

I don't think it matters since it's a group gift. Personally I'd just stick to whatever the suggested donation is unless I was buying something separately. The whole teacher gift thing is ridiculous in my opinion anyway.

One mum is doing this for my DCs class, £10 each but this is split between 1 teacher and 3 TAs.

Or are you saying a suggested amount hasn't been specified? In that's case we all get strong armed into giving £10 twice a year which is divvied up between the TA and teacher. Normally the poor TA ends up with about 30% of it. I was a class rep one year and the teacher (who was a pretty crap one at that) ended up with over £100 of vouchers twice a year just for doing her job. The trouble is, it's just expected we do it now. Most parents contribute, but not all. Despite my misgivings I've always contributed as I feel pressured to do so. One of the many hits of secondary school is leaving this shite behind.

I meant 'joys' not 'hits'.

I think £20 is a bit much and might make others feel uncomfortable. £10 each is plenty, and then if you want to 'top up' by yourself that's up to you.

We do the same for our teacher and TA every year. It's £5 per family (people can give more or less if they want) which still works out at over £150. That's plenty!

I've just worked out I've spent £300 on teacher presents in the time my children have been at primary school.

A teacher wouldn't be allowed to accept an expensive gift like that any more.

What's the cut off? Because I can assure you the teachers are given vouchers of at least £100 twice a year at our primary school.

There's 480 children at the school. When I was a class rep about 70% of parents paid into the teacher gift fund. So that would be 336 children paying £20 per year which is £6720 per year being spent on teacher presents in a primary school!!

Omg we’re all just chucking in a fiver so some restaurant vouchers

I did £30 for my year 1 and £20 for my preschooler.

Amazing staff, my kids have been so well supported and well looked after. I don't think £50 comes close to expressing this to be honest.

Primaries are notorious for this ridiculous teacher gift expectation of parents. It’s lovely that people want to thank staff, but a card would do (and can be saved / photographed as evidence towards their UPS application).

I teach (not primary) and have had some lovely gifts over the years that were always appreciated, but really, they aren’t expected. A card is ok.